Corner Quotes
1346 quotes by 1091 authors
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Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner.…
— Nancy Werlin
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Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm." Will shook his…
— John Flanagan
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As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more…
— Donna Tartt
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I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up…
— Gena Showalter
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If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with…
— Hélder Câmara
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What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it…
— Simon R. Green
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She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes,He took her for granted, of course he did , but he…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss…
— Katherine Mansfield
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Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them…
— J R Ward
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Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The Simi has needs. Lots of needs. I need akri’s plastic card, for one thing. It very nice. People give me lots of stuff when…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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He's not here." "Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep…
— Nicholas Evans
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I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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